Quantification of Liver Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Tissues by MRI Before and After Bariatric Surgery

摘要

BackgroundMorbid obesity is a worldwide epidemic and is increasingly treated by bariatric surgery. Fatty liver is a common finding; almost half of all patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis develop steatohepatitis. Bariatric surgery improves steatohepatitis documented by liver biopsy and single voxel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques.